Wow. Usually my 15 year old son resents very strongly whenever I get him to watch a music video, but this time he responded with "Nice. That was worth watching, actually." Also, yesterday an old man and woman I've never seen before turned up at our door and gave us a Christmas hamper with a ham, pudding, other Christmas foods, and a $50 gift voucher... When I thanked them the woman kissed my hand! It was very moving. Thank-you for this song. Peace on Earth.
It's hard not to feel like you've gone insane when you don't see anyone else taking issue with the dystopia in which we live. This song is comforting, strangely.
I think there's a lot of us. But why explain that things are bad and likely to get worse to people who are out of touch with reality, too stubborn to admit the truth, or get perverse satisfaction from lying? In time, we will speakout and find each other.
...Same!! There must be a glitch at the YT algorithm hub, it's actually suggesting something that uplifts us humans, causing us to critically think, how dare they, this video doesn't make me want to participate in consumerism in any way shape or form!!! That's it, I'm calling Elon!! 😂😂
Before empires, before currency, humans lived in groups of 50-80 people. They gave each other food, homes, and clothing where it was needed. They only traded with outsiders. But all it took was one human realizing they could control others if they controlled the resources. That was the birth of currency. It is easy to control others with money and beliefs. But money is not the root of evil. It was those who felt they where more entitled to resources than others. They are cancers onto society. Entitlement, pride, and greed.
I was feeling really sick and Im 64 years old and lived in the countryside, the stuff I saw while Farming and and oil patch and mining and lumber would open peoples eyes to how many billions of dollars handled by corrupt politicians, at this stage of the world everyone should have housing and health care, with the utmost respect for our own people
I would like to add a few things...I have complete compassion for One's with no Home, no Food, no life. Yes, some are to do with drug's, and to treat drug addictions with giving drug's that actually get Them High, is totally Rediclous in My way of thinking. And in most places there is a sizable fee for that! I can't help but trying to wrap My brain around that and try to understand it!? And then there are Homeless Veterans! That should not be happening Anywhere! They could be suffering from PTSD, or many other issues, to many to mention here, I could write a book on that subject alone!! And Children! Wow! Wow! It totally break's My Heart that there are Hungry, in need of shelter, medical help, and more. That's not just Here, that is World Wide! There should be absolutely no Hungry Children Anywhere! Not just the US, but Anywhere!! None of this Subject is any Child's fault!! The salutation, Feed Them!! We in the US, waste, throw away, more food, being the only Country that truly does this!! No matter Who or Where, Feed the Babies, Feed the Children!! There are a list of many reasons why These People are on the Street's??, And Yup, Why is a Big Question!!? Maybe Try to find out Why!? And to be honest,where I live, is small City. You don't see this, tents, homeless, hungry People! Oh, it's Here! Just hidden, hidden Well!! This City, as well as Everywhere has changed so Much since I was a child!! As a teenager, Me along with so many Other's thought this Small City was boring, but We still worked!! As a single parent most of the time, still Worked!! As I look at it now, this is a Amazing City! I have noticed how this City and most of the People in it Care!! I've experienced seeing this City pull together as One and Help Other's in Crisis, and in need of Help! It's out There, and comforting to know that it is!! It's sad to notice that being from a different generation than now, There are so Many that don't work! I would guess it's All about how one was raised. There isn't one place of business that I have walked into that doesn't have a Help wanted Sign! I wonder why People don't apply for a job? It's a great beginning to start a New Lifestyle, and then go from there!! As being a Senior Citizen now, I see this City as an Awesome Place to Be!! With Me it was unfortunate that I had no Choice but to retire early through Disability. Which took Me a good Three Years or more to accept the fact that I could not go back to work!! Heck, I still think that way!! I had to drop alot of to much pride, and try to accept and try to put the idea of work to rest. I had to reach out for help! It's there! And People Who Truly Care!! I will end with Please try to find out what the problem is with those in Need, but also having to keep in Mind that there are some that just don't want help and choose to live in such a sad and mixed up way!! And some that truly need help with where to begin! Reach out and see if You could be the One to Offer Guidence?! And unfortunately there are some that just don't want it! That is what saddens Me! And leave's Me with the Question, Why? 💜✝️
After retiring early due to ptsd from a job I loved, I struggled for along time with exactly how you're feeling. Some advice from a mentor I'd like to share if you if don't mind.... He asked me, "did you forget what you learned day 1 at the academy?" I said "You do what you can, where you can, for as long as you can"??? He went to tell me that doesn't just apply in the fire service, it applies in activism, and pretty much life in general. I have trouble with crowds or large groups since my diagnosis, but after my mentor's advice, and deciding to quit feeling sorry for myself, I discovered there are sooooo many things that need to be done, behind the scenes, for a social movement to work, or just for society to move forward. It can be things as simple as organizing schedules for some sort of community work or grass roots movement, on your home PC, normalizing words and phrases that certain groups try to demonize and use to fear monger, by doing things like putting your preferred pronouns on your social media profiles. Or... it could be just handing out some food and clothing when you can. Progress towards true equality and peace is a snails race, and large accomplishments rarely occur all at once. So don't despair, your acts of kindness are appreciated and do more than you can ever imagine!! ✌💚
I saw a man in Walmart the other day, his clothes were completely tattered. I knew it took a lot of courage for him just to go into the Walmart. I always hear of homeless people dying in the cold outside. Poverty is a policy choice.
Perfect 🌹 Jesus Christ’s commandment: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
I’ve shared this with everybody I know. These scenes are heartbreaking. This is what big business has done to our country. This is what unfettered unregulated business leaves in its wake.
Why life is hard for some of us, but easy for others, I'll never understand. But I'm trying to keep going. Getting COVID and/or pneumonia today (the day before my husband is supposed to start a job for the 1st time after struggling with unemployment for a year and barely making it on my income) is not quite the Christmas gift we were anticipating. Thanks for caring about us entry-level working folks who are just trying to make it to the next day. ❤
The tiktok section hit hard, but nothing hit me harder than the verse about the "prince of peace". I've always said that it never made sense to me that the greediest people speak in Jesus' name the most
Thank you for listening to the end. The ravenous wolves love to disguise themselves in the sheep's clothing of religion. Jesus himself spoke out against the hypocrisy when he was here, so when we celebrating his birthday we should do it too
I feel the same way. It's been nearly 25 years since I read the bible but I recall a verse that's something like "it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", as well as a poor woman donating her last coins to the poor was better than all the wealthy men stacking money high to show off while giving very little of what they have. The most vocal Christians are often some of the least Christ-like people out there, who would try to deport him as a brown communist refugee if they saw him in the flesh.
@eden.nd. Greed is one of the deadly sins. Bible verses condemning greed and charity toward the poor are found throughout the Bible New and Old Testaments.
If the religious right particularly in the States, realized how much of a Socialist Jesus was, they would ask we follow the devil…which if I believed in that, I would suggest they actually already are. Oh right I forgot Elgin Musk is the devil. Jesus was a dark skinned likely Arabic possibly African man that was an activist in his time. This is so shocking to many that believe him to be blonde and blue eyed. 🤦🏼♀️. May we commit to bringing love to others and shine a light on the hypocrisy of politics and religion. Wishing us all a bit of serenity and a lot of peace among our fellows. ❤☮️🕊️
Very thoughtful and meaningful lyrics … different and thought provoking in a good way. Great voice and good music compliments the message. Less developed countries were once thriving. Watch out.
Mostly around this time of year, people is all profits and marketing. We need practice being compassionate and kindness toward ourselves and each other every day. Not just in December. We need to practice balancing our inner feminine energy and inner masculine energy. That's where peace is. Inner peace creates outer peace.
No. We do make change and then the pathologically greedy find new ways to break and destroy regulation and government. Stay vigilant and fight back. We've got the numbers.
Omg. I hope things start looking up for you my friend. So many people just struggling to survive right now. The levels of inequality we're living in right now are just insane.
@ thank you. I just pray manifest and thank the universe that my van still runs and protects me and keeps me sheltered. without my minivan. I probably would be dead. So so grateful every day that my van runs and gets me to point a to point B and protects me. 💙 she just has a lot of mechanical issues that I pray one day I can get fixed. Yay fun times. But I love the song and I’ve shared it with so many people already thank you again.
@@cdannygI cannot offer anything but support in form of a message because I live in Germany but there are good people in this world , too. Hopefully some will cross your way and offer some help with the van. Damn it man, I’d buy you breakfast or new spark plugs. The problem with the world is that to many people ask Cain’s question. Yes, we are our brother’s keeper!
I would say that is insightful, but I found myself wanting to adjust it further as soon as I said "that's right" to myself: the problem is cooperative vs competition. When people want what's best for everybody, and care about everybody, then we can have systems that work really well and that adjust well when something is going haywire (like climate change, pollution crashing health and nature). We'd have no reason for war. It is important to see beyond up vs down and into the framework and feelings that are required to have an alternative. Because it happens that when good guys win, they often find themselves recreating the same bad, stuck in the same dynamics and patterns. WHY do people fall into the competition/taking advantage/inequality trap so extremely easy and fully? Why is it so easy to go along with getting ahead while shifting others further behind? Do you have an appendix even though the organ no longer has a real purpose? You also have a "stress response system" with mainly non-useful and actually harmful effects in our life, not suited to the beings, population density, and society that we are/have now. Competition, attack to the death (war) without even real benefit or genuinely logical intent - even and obviously collectively engaging in it, and being numb to the death and suffering we create in this way... This is NOT part of the whole human experience... this is specifically and only from the stress response part of us. Getting out of this dynamic cannot just happen by winning a competition or war. It requires falling in love with cooperation and mutual caring and mutual help. It requires discovering the really positive states and helping others enjoy them - creative flow states, enjoyment of others and being enjoyed by others, feeling raised up by others and raising others up, deep sense of peace - these do not happen when the stress response is engaged, along with optimal heart/lung function which only happens in these positive states. I hope we can learn this/these, so we can engage in life in a very pro-active and supportive way, and build a happier society from within. (And yes, the consequences of what we do now, arranges us in UP DOWN relationship.)
@martinkerrmusic we sure do my friend . Thanks for responding keep up the good work. I can't do nothing I'm poor as can be but your in a position to actually help. So keep doing what you do
I know this is a year old, but what a wonderful piece of music this is, only surpassed by the hard hitting, much needed, meaning of the lyrics. We need this to go viral, especially in light of recent events and it being the holiday season. I'm sharing on every social media platform I'm on!! Again, great job!! ✌💚
Painful to watch and hear, but more of it is needed. Please keep the work up. Only found it today even though it is a year old. Just came up on my feed now. Thx.
Martin you have my heart weeping! This is so incredibly apt, in particular this year. The cruelest richest man in the world is now the UNELECTED American President. 😢. Seeing Edmonton in this gritty light is truly devastating. We the common people must have better solutions than these politicians. We must use our voices and these images to shock the comfortable into action. With homelessness and drug addiction being vilified by this UCP government which is bereft of solutions, now hitting rural Alberta perhaps we can get a light shone on this tragedy. Of course people are drug addicted and hopeless. The UCP is trying to blame all the ills on Drugs…too bad they have corrupted the whole province selling off recovery to the highest bidder. It’s not drugs…IT’S THE HOPELESSNESS. The hoplessness instilled by the feeling of helplessness. Loss of neighbourhoods, community… Only we can change this Martin. People like you and those of us willing to expose the horrors and callousness of politics and industry coming together to render us powerless. Bravo Martin. I remember when you were first started singing at the downtown market so many years ago.❤ May we on earth find it in ourselves to give others, a meaningful time of year. ❄️🕊️⛄️🎄🧡☮️
This is SO good - everything in one verse. Only just listened and have memorised it already “In Washington and London Town you pay your lobby fees You hold the reins of left and right in sham democracies And keep us entertained so we don’t know we’re on our knees “
Sad isn't it? We all are entitled to abundance, may all of humanity be free of the lies and enslavement, judgement, the money/loosh! Sad indeed! I Love You & This tune, very powerful! Thank You!
Amazing production. The choice of words and images is perfect. Beautiful voice, too. What is happening to our culture is a result of rampant, unchecked, capitalism. Capitalism is not a sustainable system without worker rights and tight government regulations. I am so sad for our world.
I agree this song should be number 1 the Christmas music charts, but we both know the mega bucks music business for maximum profit and to hell with original musical talent would never allow it💰💰💰
They dont care they dont listen they blame the poor for being poor.
This song gained a whole new meaning over the past 12 days…
Facts!!!
You are absolut right. He is insane.
@@HBW1539 Both men are insane, IMO.....Trump and Musk are both money hungry and power hungry lunatics!
Especially in light of recent events. I don’t recall electing Elon
You are right!
Wow. Usually my 15 year old son resents very strongly whenever I get him to watch a music video, but this time he responded with "Nice. That was worth watching, actually." Also, yesterday an old man and woman I've never seen before turned up at our door and gave us a Christmas hamper with a ham, pudding, other Christmas foods, and a $50 gift voucher... When I thanked them the woman kissed my hand! It was very moving. Thank-you for this song. Peace on Earth.
Play this song in public spaces people!
It's hard not to feel like you've gone insane when you don't see anyone else taking issue with the dystopia in which we live. This song is comforting, strangely.
Melodic, ironic VALIDATION 💖😢💖
Yes.
I am with you.
I felt the same, thank you for your comment.
I think there's a lot of us. But why explain that things are bad and likely to get worse to people who are out of touch with reality, too stubborn to admit the truth, or get perverse satisfaction from lying? In time, we will speakout and find each other.
Hard two days before our meager feast, no tree this year. No one felt like it.
This song may have released last year, but it's ridiculously relevant right now.
It is painful especially since the situation goes way more back. It has only grown worse.
@@margreetdoodeman1441 Oh I know, it's been relevant for a long time, but this year it seems especially so.
Yep.
170 food pantries here in Milwaukee WI diaper collection and coat donation , Veterans homeless , happy Holidays .
A sad sad song . Sometimes the truth hurts.
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your chains and everything to gain ✊
One day...✊️
Genau. Das gute alte kommunistische Manifest...
Wacht auf Verdammte dieser Erde ✊❤️💫
This speaks volumes LOUDLY.
Not enough so that no one will hear it
YT just recommended this to me in December 2024. Sooooooo appropriate, nice job.
Same😅
...Same!! There must be a glitch at the YT algorithm hub, it's actually suggesting something that uplifts us humans, causing us to critically think, how dare they, this video doesn't make me want to participate in consumerism in any way shape or form!!! That's it, I'm calling Elon!! 😂😂
Same here, actually.
And half of America chose this. Truly terrifying.
Same 😊
Thank you for your song. Charles Dickens would love it.
The soundtrack for our times 😢
Thank you. The rich have always ruled the world, but never more so than now. Never.
Back to the 18th century but with the mass propaganda tool of social media making so many complicit. Sick.
Before empires, before currency, humans lived in groups of 50-80 people. They gave each other food, homes, and clothing where it was needed. They only traded with outsiders.
But all it took was one human realizing they could control others if they controlled the resources. That was the birth of currency. It is easy to control others with money and beliefs.
But money is not the root of evil. It was those who felt they where more entitled to resources than others. They are cancers onto society. Entitlement, pride, and greed.
I was feeling really sick and Im 64 years old and lived in the countryside, the stuff I saw while Farming and and oil patch and mining and lumber would open peoples eyes to how many billions of dollars handled by corrupt politicians, at this stage of the world everyone should have housing and health care, with the utmost respect for our own people
Amen 🙏
I would like to add a few things...I have complete compassion for One's with no Home, no Food, no life. Yes, some are to do with drug's, and to treat drug addictions with giving drug's that actually get Them High, is totally Rediclous in My way of thinking. And in most places there is a sizable fee for that! I can't help but trying to wrap My brain around that and try to understand it!? And then there are Homeless Veterans! That should not be happening Anywhere! They could be suffering from PTSD, or many other issues, to many to mention here, I could write a book on that subject alone!! And Children! Wow! Wow! It totally break's My Heart that there are Hungry, in need of shelter, medical help, and more. That's not just Here, that is World Wide! There should be absolutely no Hungry Children Anywhere! Not just the US, but Anywhere!! None of this Subject is any Child's fault!! The salutation, Feed Them!! We in the US, waste, throw away, more food, being the only Country that truly does this!! No matter Who or Where, Feed the Babies, Feed the Children!! There are a list of many reasons why These People are on the Street's??, And Yup, Why is a Big Question!!? Maybe Try to find out Why!? And to be honest,where I live, is small City. You don't see this, tents, homeless, hungry People! Oh, it's Here! Just hidden, hidden Well!! This City, as well as Everywhere has changed so Much since I was a child!! As a teenager, Me along with so many Other's thought this Small City was boring, but We still worked!! As a single parent most of the time, still Worked!! As I look at it now, this is a Amazing City! I have noticed how this City and most of the People in it Care!! I've experienced seeing this City pull together as One and Help Other's in Crisis, and in need of Help! It's out There, and comforting to know that it is!! It's sad to notice that being from a different generation than now, There are so Many that don't work! I would guess it's All about how one was raised. There isn't one place of business that I have walked into that doesn't have a Help wanted Sign! I wonder why People don't apply for a job? It's a great beginning to start a New Lifestyle, and then go from there!! As being a Senior Citizen now, I see this City as an Awesome Place to Be!! With Me it was unfortunate that I had no Choice but to retire early through Disability. Which took Me a good Three Years or more to accept the fact that I could not go back to work!! Heck, I still think that way!! I had to drop alot of to much pride, and try to accept and try to put the idea of work to rest. I had to reach out for help! It's there! And People Who Truly Care!! I will end with Please try to find out what the problem is with those in Need, but also having to keep in Mind that there are some that just don't want help and choose to live in such a sad and mixed up way!! And some that truly need help with where to begin! Reach out and see if You could be the One to Offer Guidence?! And unfortunately there are some that just don't want it! That is what saddens Me! And leave's Me with the Question, Why? 💜✝️
mark Here's a hug. I'm 70. What our eye's have seen...
They'll never give it. We must take what's ours without apology.
Proud of you brother for having the courage to do this and sing these fitting and important words!
Thank you Jarome ❤
Greed is poison love your neighbor
your voice and lyrics Martin! Brilliant. Very sad.
All of this is even more true now; this describes this year.
You should play this with Huge amplifiers and speakers blasting down Wall Street!
In all the halls of government
During the inaugural parade
Martin thank you for being a voice for those who don't
Thank you for listening. I feel lucky to be able to raise my voice in relative freedom through music
Martin you’re an angel and you have the most beautiful voice and a poet, God bless you.❤
Bless you, merry gentle man. May your season be bright with the light of truth and transparency.
This made me weep. It makes me want to help those who need it. At the least, I will give out food and clothing.
Thank you, this is a wonderful response. Sometimes it feels hopeless because we can't help everybody. But helping somebody is an amazing thing.
@@martinkerrmusicthere is the channel of justknate (hope i wrote it correctly) if you find it you might link?
After retiring early due to ptsd from a job I loved, I struggled for along time with exactly how you're feeling. Some advice from a mentor I'd like to share if you if don't mind....
He asked me, "did you forget what you learned day 1 at the academy?" I said "You do what you can, where you can, for as long as you can"??? He went to tell me that doesn't just apply in the fire service, it applies in activism, and pretty much life in general.
I have trouble with crowds or large groups since my diagnosis, but after my mentor's advice, and deciding to quit feeling sorry for myself, I discovered there are sooooo many things that need to be done, behind the scenes, for a social movement to work, or just for society to move forward.
It can be things as simple as organizing schedules for some sort of community work or grass roots movement, on your home PC, normalizing words and phrases that certain groups try to demonize and use to fear monger, by doing things like putting your preferred pronouns on your social media profiles. Or... it could be just handing out some food and clothing when you can. Progress towards true equality and peace is a snails race, and large accomplishments rarely occur all at once. So don't despair, your acts of kindness are appreciated and do more than you can ever imagine!! ✌💚
I saw a man in Walmart the other day, his clothes were completely tattered. I knew it took a lot of courage for him just to go into the Walmart. I always hear of homeless people dying in the cold outside. Poverty is a policy choice.
Biggest mistake of us is to help those who should be helped by those who have been elected by us to help each and every one of us.
Very sobering. I didn't realise at first that this is from a year ago! It seems even more relevant now.
Perfect 🌹
Jesus Christ’s commandment: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
Exactly! Left, right, politicians, media and both sides of the pond, as well as other countries!! 🔥🔥
The resolution for this should come from the left, unfortunately the Overton window has moved to far to the right.
@NeonNights80 More people are questioning and we need to appeal more than the far right 😁
@@NeonNights80 So far to the right that at least in the US the Nazis are somehow "leftist".
I can't believe this came out a year ago!!! Chefs kiss!
This was a hauntingly beautiful rendition of the Christmas classic. Thank you for this message.
Sd that a song like this has to be made becuase of the sickening greed and state of our world. Very well done sir.
"It is impossible for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Christ said it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom.
But they sure are comfortable on Earth
@@Joanne.IM.12343Tell that to the prosperity gospel fat cats.
Little comfort while freezing
Yeah all the people they've sent ahead of them will riot if they try.
Awesome 👍🏼😎🙏😔💯🇺🇲
I’ve shared this with everybody I know. These scenes are heartbreaking. This is what big business has done to our country. This is what unfettered unregulated business leaves in its wake.
Speak it sista
Yes, and it's only going to get much worse in the next 4 years when Trump takes away all current restrictions on big business!
Why life is hard for some of us, but easy for others, I'll never understand. But I'm trying to keep going. Getting COVID and/or pneumonia today (the day before my husband is supposed to start a job for the 1st time after struggling with unemployment for a year and barely making it on my income) is not quite the Christmas gift we were anticipating. Thanks for caring about us entry-level working folks who are just trying to make it to the next day. ❤
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Hide the walls and the prisoner will believe he's free. Amazing song.
Medical catastrophes. What a sad world in which we live. Help each other.
Free Luigi
Perfect song for what's happening today
I live in a van 4 years now merry fuckmas everyone 😊
Fuckmas I love it. I hate the spending part of Christmas. Just buy more crap lol
This hits hard right now.
Sign of the times...
Stay strong, my brothers! 💪🤨👍
Merry Christmas brothers and sisters. Thanks for this awesome song!
Sickening. You are absolutely rigth. Thank YOU.
Yes this is truly the ode of our generation.
The tiktok section hit hard, but nothing hit me harder than the verse about the "prince of peace". I've always said that it never made sense to me that the greediest people speak in Jesus' name the most
Thank you for listening to the end. The ravenous wolves love to disguise themselves in the sheep's clothing of religion. Jesus himself spoke out against the hypocrisy when he was here, so when we celebrating his birthday we should do it too
I feel the same way. It's been nearly 25 years since I read the bible but I recall a verse that's something like "it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", as well as a poor woman donating her last coins to the poor was better than all the wealthy men stacking money high to show off while giving very little of what they have. The most vocal Christians are often some of the least Christ-like people out there, who would try to deport him as a brown communist refugee if they saw him in the flesh.
Agreed!
@eden.nd. Greed is one of the deadly sins. Bible verses condemning greed and charity toward the poor are found throughout the Bible New and Old Testaments.
If the religious right particularly in the States, realized how much of a Socialist Jesus was, they would ask we follow the devil…which if I believed in that, I would suggest they actually already are. Oh right I forgot Elgin Musk is the devil. Jesus was a dark skinned likely Arabic possibly African man that was an activist in his time. This is so shocking to many that believe him to be blonde and blue eyed. 🤦🏼♀️.
May we commit to bringing love to others and shine a light on the hypocrisy of politics and religion. Wishing us all a bit of serenity and a lot of peace among our fellows. ❤☮️🕊️
Very thoughtful and meaningful lyrics … different and thought provoking in a good way. Great voice and good music compliments the message. Less developed countries were once thriving. Watch out.
Mostly around this time of year, people is all profits and marketing. We need practice being compassionate and kindness toward ourselves and each other every day. Not just in December.
We need to practice balancing our inner feminine energy and inner masculine energy. That's where peace is. Inner peace creates outer peace.
Looks like a fentanyl Christmas 🎄
When the cover is better than the original … ❤🎉😮
Great! Valid round all our world. Thank you and God blessed you. Looking forward to your new songs. Greetings from Prague, Heart or Europe.
Great song. And blessings for saying both left and right are guilty
Wow, a beautiful, sad and striking remake. Very apropos right now.
Horribly accurate
Great song with a purpose😅😊
Excellent. Nothing has changed in the world since the beginning of time. Those who take do not share. Thank you. I hope it makes a difference.
No. We do make change and then the pathologically greedy find new ways to break and destroy regulation and government. Stay vigilant and fight back. We've got the numbers.
You make me weep for humanity. Weirdly, I'm being sincere- thank you.
I found the song as I am sitting by a candle in my 2000 minivan that I’ve been living in for the last three years.
Omg. I hope things start looking up for you my friend. So many people just struggling to survive right now. The levels of inequality we're living in right now are just insane.
@ thank you. I just pray manifest and thank the universe that my van still runs and protects me and keeps me sheltered. without my minivan. I probably would be dead. So so grateful every day that my van runs and gets me to point a to point B and protects me. 💙 she just has a lot of mechanical issues that I pray one day I can get fixed. Yay fun times. But I love the song and I’ve shared it with so many people already thank you again.
@@cdannygI cannot offer anything but support in form of a message because I live in Germany but there are good people in this world , too. Hopefully some will cross your way and offer some help with the van.
Damn it man, I’d buy you breakfast or new spark plugs. The problem with the world is that to many people ask Cain’s question. Yes, we are our brother’s keeper!
@@christianmengel9407 Deine Antwort hat mich zum Weinen gebracht! Geht mir genauso! Du hast so recht, Mann!
No you didn’t.
How long until People realize that the problem is not Left versus Right, but UP versus Down.
You do know America ain't the world right? Esp after November 2024
I would say that is insightful, but I found myself wanting to adjust it further as soon as I said "that's right" to myself: the problem is cooperative vs competition. When people want what's best for everybody, and care about everybody, then we can have systems that work really well and that adjust well when something is going haywire (like climate change, pollution crashing health and nature). We'd have no reason for war.
It is important to see beyond up vs down and into the framework and feelings that are required to have an alternative. Because it happens that when good guys win, they often find themselves recreating the same bad, stuck in the same dynamics and patterns.
WHY do people fall into the competition/taking advantage/inequality trap so extremely easy and fully? Why is it so easy to go along with getting ahead while shifting others further behind? Do you have an appendix even though the organ no longer has a real purpose? You also have a "stress response system" with mainly non-useful and actually harmful effects in our life, not suited to the beings, population density, and society that we are/have now. Competition, attack to the death (war) without even real benefit or genuinely logical intent - even and obviously collectively engaging in it, and being numb to the death and suffering we create in this way... This is NOT part of the whole human experience... this is specifically and only from the stress response part of us.
Getting out of this dynamic cannot just happen by winning a competition or war. It requires falling in love with cooperation and mutual caring and mutual help. It requires discovering the really positive states and helping others enjoy them - creative flow states, enjoyment of others and being enjoyed by others, feeling raised up by others and raising others up, deep sense of peace - these do not happen when the stress response is engaged, along with optimal heart/lung function which only happens in these positive states.
I hope we can learn this/these, so we can engage in life in a very pro-active and supportive way, and build a happier society from within. (And yes, the consequences of what we do now, arranges us in UP DOWN relationship.)
Or black and white
@@karalynn4017 you can keep your racism
As an ex homeless who had a job and it wasn't enough. God bless you this was powerful as fuck. May God bless you
thank you for being here. God bless you too this winter. We've got to look after each other.
@martinkerrmusic we sure do my friend . Thanks for responding keep up the good work. I can't do nothing I'm poor as can be but your in a position to actually help. So keep doing what you do
Deny Defend Depose
Perfect! Thank you!
This was super prescient.
This is going on my protest playlist!
Just a suggestion: ua-cam.com/video/TfnYZ38NgWU/v-deo.html
YES! Exactly what I was thinking!
I know this is a year old, but what a wonderful piece of music this is, only surpassed by the hard hitting, much needed, meaning of the lyrics. We need this to go viral, especially in light of recent events and it being the holiday season. I'm sharing on every social media platform I'm on!! Again, great job!! ✌💚
Amerika!
Commenting for the algorithm 💙
Truth, Thank You, & just read those in Washington, asking ( & bet they get ) pay raise.....
You have a wonderful singing voice.
The meek shall inherent the earth 🌎 😊😮
Painful to watch and hear, but more of it is needed. Please keep the work up. Only found it today even though it is a year old. Just came up on my feed now. Thx.
Martin you have my heart weeping! This is so incredibly apt, in particular this year. The cruelest richest man in the world is now the UNELECTED American President. 😢.
Seeing Edmonton in this gritty light is truly devastating. We the common people must have better solutions than these politicians. We must use our voices and these images to shock the comfortable into action.
With homelessness and drug addiction being vilified by this UCP government which is bereft of solutions, now hitting rural Alberta perhaps we can get a light shone on this tragedy. Of course people are drug addicted and hopeless. The UCP is trying to blame all the ills on Drugs…too bad they have corrupted the whole province selling off recovery to the highest bidder. It’s not drugs…IT’S THE HOPELESSNESS. The hoplessness instilled by the feeling of helplessness. Loss of neighbourhoods, community…
Only we can change this Martin. People like you and those of us willing to expose the horrors and callousness of politics and industry coming together to render us powerless. Bravo Martin. I remember when you were first started singing at the downtown market so many years ago.❤
May we on earth find it in ourselves to give others, a meaningful time of year. ❄️🕊️⛄️🎄🧡☮️
Billionaires are in charge of the world 🌎 😢
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Now they want to be trillionaires.
But we can choose to not buy into their bs
you have no choices anymore. Too late @@RK-yt3rk
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Posted it on X. It is my Xmas card to the US Swamp folk. Beautiful message. Thank you.
This would be absolutely beautiful if it weren’t so true and depressing 🥺. ( On the positive side, you have a lovely voice💕✨✨)
OMG! Timing of when I just found this song.....wow.
This is SO good - everything in one verse. Only just listened and have memorised it already
“In Washington and London Town you pay your lobby fees
You hold the reins of left and right in sham democracies
And keep us entertained so we don’t know we’re on our knees “
Barring the people doing something, nothing will change.
Police force and 🚨🚨🚨
Beautiful and compassion may the ALMIGHTY GOD CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE BLESS YOU!!!❤❤❤
You get The Official George Carlin Award, my friend. Thanks
This won a new subscriber
Sad but good.
Took the words out of my mouth
Nothing but truth
Came from insta just to find the full version. Great song screw the corrupt people at the top pulling our strings out
Also coming over from Insta
Same!
I came from UK Column news!
I came from tiktok
Came from Glenn Beck for the same!
Outstanding video! Hauntingly honest! Thank you Sir, for this very true and realistic video of what's happening in the world today. 🥺
Thank you for sharing this truth ❤
Sharing this everywhere
Came from Tiktok... This needs to be viral ❤
Doing my part!
I came from Instagram and I agree completely with you.
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Absolutely! This is an amazing piece!
Yes, yes it does. Play it outside Billionaire CEO's office and healthcare company skyscrapers.
You have a great voice. I'm going to check out more of your channel. 😊
perfect song for our time
Wow. Powerful 😢
Sad isn't it? We all are entitled to abundance, may all of humanity be free of the lies and enslavement, judgement, the money/loosh! Sad indeed! I Love You & This tune, very powerful! Thank You!
Tyranny of the powerful waging wars upon wars upon children and the weak.
Perfect song for America the fallen.!!
Singing this one when fam wants us to do a Christmas singalong
Amazing production. The choice of words and images is perfect. Beautiful voice, too. What is happening to our culture is a result of rampant, unchecked, capitalism. Capitalism is not a sustainable system without worker rights and tight government regulations. I am so sad for our world.
This should be No#1 for Christmas
I agree this song should be number 1 the Christmas music charts, but we both know the mega bucks music business for maximum profit and to hell with original musical talent would never allow it💰💰💰
Also, The Rebel Jesus by Jackson Brown.
I loved this...Thank you!
How we never saw this coming, is the history repeating itself
Powerful! Thank you, sharing this now.
Scenes like that are easy to find in my area. San Diego, beautiful tourist town.
Insert backdrop of all major cities.